Postal date-holder



(No Model.)

B. O. WALKER.

POSTAL DATE HOLDER. No. 391,216. Patented Oct. 16, 1888.

ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES ELIAS C. WALKER, OF GALMAR, IOWA.

POSTAL DATE-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 391,216, dated October16, 1888.

Application filed December 2, 1886. Serial No 220,484.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ELIAS O. WALKER, of Oalmar, in the county ofWinneshiek and State of Iowa, have invented a new and Improved PostalDate-Holder, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

This invention relates to a cheap, durable, and efficient box or holderfor postal or other interchangeable dates.

The invention consists in the construction and arrangement of parts, aswill be hereinafter more fully described, and specifically pointed outin the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in both the views.

Figure lis a plan View of myimproved postal date-holder, the outer coverbeing removed and the inner cover being broken away to disclose theinterior construction; and Fig. 2 is a face view of the holder.

In the drawings, A represents a circular box, that is preferably made ofmetal, and that is divided into annular chambers B and O by walls orflanges D and E, that are concentric with the edge of the box. Each ofthese annular chambers B and O is divided into a nu n1- ber of minorcompartments, within which the type blocks maybe placed, thesecompartments being preferably formed by a metallic strip bent so as toextend across the chamber, then along one of thedefining-wallsof thechamber, then again across the chamber and. along the otherdefining-wall, and so on around the chamber, these strips being shown atF and G, the arrangement being such that each of the annular chambers ofthe box is divided into a number of compartments.

The cover H is centrally apertured to receive a retaining-screw, I, theinner' end of (No model.)

which engages with a nut, K, that is fixed to the bottom of the box, andthis cover H is formed with two apertures, L and M, the aperture L beingarranged to register with the compartments of the chamber B, while theaperture M is arranged to register with the compartments of the chamber0, the cover being free to turn upon its central connection with thebox.

In addition to the main cover H, Iprefer to employ an auxiliary cover,N, that is held to place above the cover H by the screw I, and arrangedso that it may be turned to close the aperture M, in which position itis shown in Fig. 2; or it may be moved to close the aperture L, thislatter position being indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 2.

The several dates are placed in the compartments in the manner shown inFig. 1, after which any date may be removed from the box by turning thecover so that one of its openings is above the date required, when, ifthe box is turned upside down, the date will fall out. In changing thedates, the one in use is returned to its position and the cover isturned so that the proper aperture will register with the required date.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent The combination,with the casing having twocircular concentric series of typespaces, and a revoluble cover havingtwo apertures corresponding with the type-spaces, of an auxiliary coverconcentric with and revolving upon the main cover and adapted to closeeither one of its apertures, substantially as set forth.

ELIAS O. WVALKER.

\Vitnesses:

JOHN Scorcr, JOHN B. KAYE.

